Researchers Use Cold Virus to Target Advanced Brian Cancer

"Dr. Lang had a smile on his face and he said, 'I'd say you're cured!'" Fralic said.

The treatment is actually a cold virus, which isn't lethal to normal cells, but it is lethal to cancer cells. The souped-up cold virus called Delta 24 was developed by a husband-wife research team at M.D. Anderson.

"I think this is a dream of researchers, that something you do on the bench moves to the patients and it has an effect. It's the best thing you can have," Delta 24 researcher Dr. Candelaria Gomez-Manzano said.

Researchers Use Cold Virus to Target Advanced Brian Cancer

"Dr. Lang had a smile on his face and he said, 'I'd say you're cured!'" Fralic said.

The treatment is actually a cold virus, which isn't lethal to normal cells, but it is lethal to cancer cells. The souped-up cold virus called Delta 24 was developed by a husband-wife research team at M.D. Anderson.

"I think this is a dream of researchers, that something you do on the bench moves to the patients and it has an effect. It's the best thing you can have," Delta 24 researcher Dr. Candelaria Gomez-Manzano said.